The nuage mediates retrotransposon silencing in mouse primordial ovarian follicles

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 140, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 3819-3825

  Lim, Ai Khim ^a   Lorthongpanich, Chanchao ^a,b   Chew, Ting Gang ^a   Tan, Chin Wee Godwin ^c   Shue, Yan Ting ^d   Balu, Sathish ^a   Gounko, Natalia ^e   Kuramochi Miyagawa, Satomi ^f   Matzuk, Martin M ^g   Chuma, Shinichiro ^g   Messerschmidt, Daniel M ^a   Solter, Davor ^a,h   Knowles, Barbara B ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^f OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Mouse; Nuage; Ovary; PiRNAs; Primordial follicles; Retrotransposons

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; MOUSE VASA HOMOLOG PROTEIN; PIWI LIKE 2 PROTEIN; PIWI PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TUDOR DOMAIN CONTAINING 9 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETROPOSON;

EID: 84883233566     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.099184     Document Type: Article

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